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Lanark and the Clyde Valley
have played a central role in the history of Scotland since pre-Roman
times. From being the site of an early Scottish Parliament, the county was also where William Wallace began his battle for Scottish Independance against the English. In the late eighteenth century, David Dale, a Glasgow banker and Richard Arkwright, inventor of the Spinning Jenny, constructed a village and textile mill in a narrow gorge on the banks of the River Clyde. This village, called New Lanark, was soon to become world famous. Robert Owen, Dale's son-in-law took over managment of the mills in 1880. From being a tyrannical boss, he slowly changed his ways and New Lanark became a model workplace where new ideas of labour relations and working conditions were tried. Owen argued that a well educated and well housed workforce would be more efficient. Today his once radical ideas are common workplace and his mills are a World Heritage Site. |
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the area was the Scottish International Aviation Meeting of 1910.
This was the first time that aircraft had been seen in numbers in
Scotland, and the meeting attracted the best of Europe's fledgling
pilots. Nineteen plots gave over 100.000 people their first taste
of the radical new flying machines. From street scenes to Lanimer processions, from Tillietudlem to Milton Lockhart Castle, now transported to Japan, stone by stone, there is much in this collection to remind residents of a long time gone when life was more tranquil and when events of world importance happened in the Valley of the Clyde. Another beautiful book, from the Author: Helen Moir. |
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